Mike Staniszewski

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September 10, 2001, on Acura NSX Review:
For the most part I must concur with the author's perspective on the NSX, and on exotic sports cars in general. I have not yet owned an NSX, but I have been lucky enough to own two air cooled Porsches to date, an '85 and a '91 model, both bought used, and both driven daily for several years. Although both cars bristled with "character" and were a unique driving experience, they were also incredibly expensive to maintain as daily drivers. And this with me doing the maintenance and repair work myself, for the most part. The list of repairs is endless, from alternators (which last 30k miles) to oil thermostats to non-cold a/c systems to worn transmission synchros to an endless amount of leaking oil lines. I am of the mind that I do not want to invest a huge sum of money into a car and then just look at it as it sits in the garage, so I was committed from the start to drive the Porsches every day, or not buy them at all. Even so, I was still shocked at the huge expense involved in keeping...